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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev faces flourishing general critique for pardoning an Azerbaijani army officer who was condemned to life in jail for a 2004 ax murder of an Armenian troops officer.

Ramil Safarov was condemned in 2006 by a Budapest justice after admissing to a murder of Armenian Army Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian while a dual were attending a denunciation march orderly by NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

Margarian was killed in his dormitory room in Budapest while he was sleeping. A postmortem hearing after resolved that Safarov crushed Margarian’s face with an ax 16 times, scarcely disjunction his conduct from his body.

Hungarian military pronounced Margarian was also stabbed several times in a chest.

Hungary says it returned Safarov to Azerbaijan on Aug 31 after receiving assurances from Baku his jail judgment would be enforced.

But Aliyev released a presidential atonement for Safarov on his attainment in Baku.

YEREVAN. – An online-petition perfectionist a Hungarian Government to apologize for carrying expelled a murderer, condemned for life in jail, who was expelled to Azerbaijan appears in Internet, Nouvelles d’Arménie reports.

“Safarov will not offer his punishment tenure in Azerbaijan. Moreover, a killer was met in Baku as a inhabitant hero. It is scornful probity and a memory of a murdered Armenian major Gurgen Margaryan and contingency prompt everybody to pointer a petition addressed to a Hungarian Government,” a petition author stated.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported progressing that Ramil Safarov, a major of a Azerbaijani army, was extradited on Friday from Hungary, where he was portion a life judgment – and with no countenance of possibly bewail or distress – for a intentional mattock murder of Armenian major Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace module in Budapest behind in 2004.

PanARMENIAN.Net – Feb 19 outlines a 8th anniversary of a murdering of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan. Lieutenant of a Armenian Armed Forces Gurgen Margaryan, 26, was hacked to death, while asleep, by a associate Azerbaijani participant, major Ramil Safarov, in Budapest during a three-month English denunciation march in a horizon of NATO-sponsored Partnership for Peace program.

On Apr 13, 2006, Budapest District Court Ramil Safarov condemned Safarov to life in jail for murdering Margaryan. On Feb 22, 2007, Budapest Court deserted a Azerbaijani troops officer’s interest opposite a verdict, precluding probability of atonement for a initial 30 years.

By a direct of then-President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, officer Margaryan was awarded with a post-mortem Medal for Courage on

During a session, Mr. Nalbandian dwelled on NATO –Armenia cooperation, Armenia’s unfamiliar routine priorities, new developments in Karabakh settlement. The Foreign Minister gave high comment to Armenia-NATO partnership in a horizon of Partnership for Peace Program and Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAP). The Minister of Defence, in turn, briefed those benefaction on a routine and perspectives of reforms in Armenia’s counterclaim complement and confidence sector.

NATO member gave high comment to Armenia’s IPAP implementation, a routine of reforms, Armenia’s appearance if Afghanistan and Kosovo peacekeeping missions, privately observant Armenia’s enlargement of Afghanistan mission, while stability a goal in Kosovo.

During a session, Mr. Nalbandian dwelled on NATO –Armenia cooperation, Armenia’s unfamiliar routine priorities, new developments in Karabakh settlement. The Foreign Minister gave high comment to Armenia-NATO partnership in a horizon of Partnership for Peace Program and Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAP). The Minister of Defence, in turn, briefed those benefaction on a routine and perspectives of reforms in Armenia’s counterclaim complement and confidence sector.

NATO member gave high comment to Armenia’s IPAP implementation, a routine of reforms, Armenia’s appearance if Afghanistan and Kosovo peacekeeping missions, privately observant Armenia’s enlargement of Afghanistan mission, while stability a goal in Kosovo.

International discussion hold within a horizon of Women for Peace module is postponed, Rimma Arakelyan, conduct of Council of kin of blank servicemen (participants of Karabakh war) told Armenian News-NEWS.am. The reasons are not reported.

The discussion scheduled for May 5 had to take place in Nagorno-Karabakh. Belgian senator Dominique Tilmans heads a program.

Several meetings have already been held. However, a Azerbaijani side hampers any attempts to concur within a horizon of a program. Armenia’s deputy Rimma Arakelyan unsuccessful to attend a assembly hold in Baku final Dec due to Azerbaijani side’s disaster to endorse confidence guarantees on time.

U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch welcomes deepening of NATO-Armenia family in all fields. Talking to a reporters about growth of Armenia-NATO ties, a diplomat removed Armenia’s team-work with a fondness has scarcely 20 years’ history.

She also stressed Armenia has been participating in NATO’s Partnership for Peace module given 2004. Armenian peacekeepers assistance say assent and fortitude in Kosovo, participated in a peacekeeping goal in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan, a U.S. attach� added.

Last autumn margin use “Armenia 2010”allowed NATO and partner countries to use disaster response mechanisms and capabilities and to raise co-operation in puncture situations. It brought together member of 30 member states and NATO partners. The Ambassador stressed significance of such events in a context of new comfortless events in Japan.